It’s only been seven months but NPR reports Latino voters are already growing weary of President Donald Trump’s economic policies.
NPR reports Latino voters are among the nation’s more unreliable swing voters. They swung in greater numbers for Trump in the last election, and now they’re minds are on their wallets as consumer prices fail to drop.
"Republicans have failed to deliver on a lot of their campaign promises, particularly around lowering the cost of living," said Caitlin Jury, a research director at Equis Research. "If they want to retain any gains they may have made among Latino voters, they need to be sure to deliver on the promises they made that maybe gave them some additional support in the last election."
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Daniel Garza, president of Republican mobilizing group Libre Initiative, said Latinos are generally not satisfied with the current economy.
"Still too many of us are living paycheck to paycheck," said Garza. "Folks aren't getting good paying jobs, wage growth, checks on inflation, affordable health care and housing and quality education."
Melissa Morales, founder and president of left-leaning Latino voter mobilization organization Somos Votantes, said her own group's polling has uncovered growing economic pessimism among Latino voters since January.
"The longer Trump is in office, the more frustrated Latino voters are becoming with his economic policies, and it's becoming a pretty huge liability for him," Morales told NPR.
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NPR reports the GOP currently has a very narrow majority in the House and the Senate, and congressional control will depend on next year's midterm elections. Many competitive races deciding those seats are in districts with large Latino populations.
Morales, who agrees that Latino voters are swing voters, say will likely again swing “one way or the other."
Read the full NPR report at this link.